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RE: weekly report

Released on 2013-11-15 00:00 GMT

Email-ID

3475135

Date

2010-01-04 00:56:18

From

burton@stratfor.com

To

gfriedman@stratfor.com, exec@stratfor.com

Is the timing right to ask for a Stratfor issued black Porsche Turbo
Carrera? I'm thinking it would fit our mystique (well, at least mine) and
could be used as a marketing write off. Okay to purchase? Must be a
black one though. No other color works for me according to Jon
Stewart.

From: George Friedman [mailto:gfriedman@stratfor.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 5:49 PM
To: Exec
Subject: weekly report
Tomorrow is the first day Bob Merry will be on the payroll. I asked him to
make his own way during the first weeks. By now you all know whether you
report to him or not: Maverick, Mike, Grant, Jeff and Patrick all report
directly to Bob. Bob, Darryl, Peter, Stick, Fred, Aaric and Meredith
all report to me. I expect Aaric and Meredith (in latent PR mode) may
cross lines. There may be some changes in this but not much. It is my
intention to allow Bob to work directly with his reports, but I expect to
be in periodic contact with all of you. The pleasure of my company, alas,
will still be with you.

The danger here is a further separation of intelligence and business than
already exists, given both culture and the elevator. We need to all work
to overcome this. The product development area will be one place where we
all meet. Crossing lines is one thing we need to have at all levels. The
one thing that must not evolve is "my side of the company" and "Bob's side
of the company." Bob reports to me, but it is my intention and our
agreement that we manage the company collegiality--that means that I
intend, as far as my obligations to the Board permit, to defer to him in
his areas of responsibility. But a split in the company must not be
permitted to take place. I expect each of you to work against that,
especially with your staffs.

There will be questions about Richard Parker's departure. He chose to
resign. There will be no comments to the staff beyond this, no winks, no
hints. He chose to resign.

There will also be significant concerns from the staff as the company
evolves. It will be your responsible to address those concerns. In the
past, there have been concerns about lack of communications in the
company. While I need to speak to the company periodically, and Bob will
too, the primary responsibility for communications with the company is the
department head. You speak to your staff daily. It is your job to
communicate, reassure and kill rumors. There will be many rumors in the
days to come--count on it. You job is to squelch them while communicating
what is actually happening. If there are any issues, come to me or Bob
(if you report to him) immediately. We do not want confusion right now
beyond the normal concern.

Darryl remains COO and will continue to do what he has been doing, with
his tasks evolving as the company does. He is still the go to guy for
operational matters until Bob and I give different instructions.

Bob along with Jeff will be preparing new budgets based on clearer
understandings of revenue for my approval. They will communicate
timelines.

Don remains Chairman and President, and will be responsible for general
oversight of finance. He will be completing some tasks he started (like
where the hell do we move) and then pullback into Chairman, reality check,
financial whiz and senior adviser. I particularly would like Patrick and
Jeff to bear in mind their new boss. Jeff will continue to work on
financial matters still being dealt with by Don.

If there are any questions speak up--not down. I have my cell phone
always.

I will be in Monday and Tuesday and flying to Columbus Ohio for a speech
on Wednesday. Fun times.